Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
<span><span><span class=”message_content”>How the language police are perverting liberalism. </span></span></span> How the language police are perverting liberalism. Around 2 a.m. on December 12, four students approached the apartment of Omar Mahmood, a Muslim student at the University of Michigan, who had recently published a column in a school newspaper about his perspective as a…
Sunday was the day of yet another red-carpet event, for yet another award show. Whenever these shows happen, there’s bound to be a reporter making a fool of him- or herself. Sunday night during the Screen Actors Guild Awards red carpet, Rashida Jones, who stars in Parks and Recreation, had to let a reporter know about…
Updated Sunday, Jan. 25, 6:35 p.m.: The Yale Police Department is conducting an internal investigation of an incident in which a New York Times columnist’s son was stopped by police, who were seeking a burglary suspect, according to the Yale Daily Mail. The paper says college students had described a tall, African-American male wearing a black…
close shareTools Saturday evening, I got a call that no parent wants to get. It was my son calling from college — he’s a third-year student at Yale. He had been accosted by a campus police officer, at gunpoint! This is how my son remembers it: He left for the library around 5:45 p.m. to…
Since 17 people were murdered in the Paris terror attacks that started with a massacre of cartoonists, staff, and police at Charlie Hebdo magazine almost two weeks ago, The New York Times has not deemed fit to print even one caricature by the French satirical weekly, citing Muslim sensitivities. But today the Times opened up her august…
The man at the opera tells me I’m disgusting, but in a lot of ways, he’s lucky. There is no moisture in the air. I slept the night before in braids. It’s a matinee, so I’m holding a very strong day vibe: more Tracee Ellis-Ross in Black-ish than Diana Ross’s 1983 Central Park performance. My…
[if lt IE 9]>< ![endif] http://media.blubrry.com/itsalljournalism/content.blubrry.com/itsalljournalism/IAJ-2015-01-15-150.mp3“It is every cartoonist’s worse nightmare and it’s absolutely chilling. Sadness, shock and horror.” That’s how political cartoonist Jen Sorensen described her reaction on hearing of the Jan. 7, 2015, attack on the Paris headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo magazine by two Islamist gunman. The shootings killed 12, including cartoonists…
Race and gender politics at this year’s Golden Globes took an unexpected range of twists and turns. First, hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler shamelessly mocked the many rape allegations against Bill Cosby. Given that there has been a significant strain of public resistance among some African-Americans to the racial politics of a group of…
Begin: Right Rail Advertisement Container End: Right Rail Advertisement Container Begin: WordPress Article Content What if Silicon Valley had emerged from a racially integrated community?Would the technology industry be different? Would we? And what can the technology industry do now to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past? I met Bob Hoover one sunny Friday afternoon when…
DeRay McKesson, a Minneapolis school administrator, has been interviewed by the Washington Post, Reuters, and The Atlantic, and gained more than 61,000 Twitter followers over the past five months. It’s all thanks to his frequent bursts of 140-character insight about the #blacklivesmatter movement, which sprung up after police officer Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown, a black 18 year old,…